Myrmeciinae
Not to be confused with Myrmicinae.
| Myrmeciinae | |
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| Myrmecia gulosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Vespoidea |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae Emery, 1877 |
| Type genus | |
| Myrmecia | |
| Tribes and genera | |
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2 extant genera; 5 fossil genera; 2 tribes[1] | |
Myrmeciinae is a subfamily of the Formicidae, once found worldwide but now restricted to Australia and New Caledonia. This subfamily is one of several ant subfamilies which possess gamergates, female worker ants which are able to mate and reproduce, thus sustaining the colony after the loss of the queen.[2] The Myrmeciinae subfamily was formerly composed of only one genus, Myrmecia, but the subfamily was redescribed by Ward & Brady in 2003 to include two tribes and four genera:[3] An additional three genera, one form genus, and 9 species were described in 2006 by Archibald, Cover and Moreau from the Early Eocene of Denmark, Canada, and Washington.[4]
Tribes and genera
- Tribe Myrmeciini Emery, 1877
- Myrmecia Fabricius, 1804
- Tribe Prionomyrmecini Wheeler, 1915
- Nothomyrmecia Clark, 1934
- †Prionomyrmex Mayr, 1868
- Tribe incertae sedis
- †Archimyrmex Cockerell, 1923
- †Avitomyrmex Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006
- †Macabeemyrma Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006
- †Ypresiomyrma Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006
- Form genus (for species belonging to the subfamily but not identifiable to current genera)
- †Myrmeciites Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2013), "An online catalog of the ants of the world.", AntCat, retrieved 22 September 2013
- ↑ Vincent Dietemann, Christian Peeters & Bert Hölldobler (2004). "Gamergates in the Australian ant subfamily Myrmeciinae". Natuwwissenschaften 91 (9): 432–435. doi:10.1007/s00114-004-0549-1. PMID 15278223.
- ↑ Philip S. Ward & Seán G. Brady (2003). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics 17 (3): 361–386. doi:10.1071/IS02046.
- ↑ Archibald, S.B.; Cover, S. P.; Moreau, C. S. (2006). "Bulldog Ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and History of the Subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99 (3): 487–523. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[487:BAOTEO]2.0.CO;2.
External links
Media related to Myrmeciinae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Myrmeciinae at Wikispecies
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